Would it be terribly rude for me to point out that … you guys are making up a lot of shit about Buddhism? It’s like stumbling into a meetup of Creationists randomly speculating about physics and biology. It’s so far removed that it isn’t worth correcting you. You should just scrap it and start over. Or use very different terminology to talk about what it is you actually wish to talk about. You guys aren’t even close to describing the differences between Theravada and Mahayana.
“Dismantling your motives” is an interesting phrase, but I don’t know what it means. What does this actually entail? How does one achieve this?
I used to suffer from burnout all the time before I started Buddhist training. After a lot of effort, I did ‘dismantle’ that pattern. Does this count as dismantling my motives? Are we certain that the culture that perpetuates burnout as a common pattern among otherwise young, healthy people isn’t the cultural program that ‘dismantles your motives’?
Would it be terribly rude for me to point out that … you guys are making up a lot of shit about Buddhism?
I don’t know much about Buddhism, so it’s plausible that I garbled davidad’s original point. In particular, upon reflection I think he was more drawing a loose analogy than claiming to describe key features of either branch of Buddhism. I’ve edited the comment above to reflect this, since I don’t want to accidentally ascribe to him a less sensible position than he has.
Would it be terribly rude for me to point out that … you guys are making up a lot of shit about Buddhism? It’s like stumbling into a meetup of Creationists randomly speculating about physics and biology. It’s so far removed that it isn’t worth correcting you. You should just scrap it and start over. Or use very different terminology to talk about what it is you actually wish to talk about. You guys aren’t even close to describing the differences between Theravada and Mahayana.
“Dismantling your motives” is an interesting phrase, but I don’t know what it means. What does this actually entail? How does one achieve this?
I used to suffer from burnout all the time before I started Buddhist training. After a lot of effort, I did ‘dismantle’ that pattern. Does this count as dismantling my motives? Are we certain that the culture that perpetuates burnout as a common pattern among otherwise young, healthy people isn’t the cultural program that ‘dismantles your motives’?
I don’t know much about Buddhism, so it’s plausible that I garbled davidad’s original point. In particular, upon reflection I think he was more drawing a loose analogy than claiming to describe key features of either branch of Buddhism. I’ve edited the comment above to reflect this, since I don’t want to accidentally ascribe to him a less sensible position than he has.